Several major press titles, including Le Monde, Ouest France and L’Équipe, increased their prices at the start of 2024, a consequence of inflation, before a year full of major political and sporting events (AFP/Archives/OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE)
Several major press titles, including Le Monde, Ouest France and L’Équipe, increased their prices at the start of 2024, a consequence of inflation, before a year full of major political and sporting events.
Le Monde, the most read national daily according to the ACPM, has been selling since Tuesday at 3.60 euros, an increase of 20 cents compared to 2023, while the Saturday edition remains at 3.40 euros.
This increase comes to “compensate for the high cost of our industrial costs”, announced Tuesday on the front page of the newspaper Louis Dreyfus, chairman of the board of directors of Le Monde, and Jérôme Fenoglio, director of Le Monde.
Coverage of the elections in the United States and the European Union as well as the upcoming Olympic Games also forced the daily to change its prices, the leaders continue in their message.
Same trend at Échos (LVMH group) and La Croix (Bayard Presse): it costs 3.60 euros and 2.90 euros respectively to buy a copy since Tuesday.
The daily Les Echos now sells for 3.60 euros (AFP/Archives/MARTIN BUREAU)
As for the sports daily L’Équipe, the issue costs 2.40 euros instead of 2.30 euros. The weekend offer is also 20 cents more expensive: 3.50 euros with the weekly magazine and 4.80 euros with the magazine and the France Football supplement.
A choice made to “defend the production of quality daily information”, Yannick Lemaire, communications director of the L’Équipe group, told AFP.
The regional press is not spared: Ouest France, the most widely read regional daily, will increase its copy by 5 cents, due to the “economic consequences of inflation”.
On their website, the title of the Sipa-Ouest-France group cites the growing costs of home delivery and a necessary increase to “firmly remain attentive to the territories”.
Seven of the 10 newspapers owned by the EBRA (Crédit Mutuel) press group are also revising their prices upwards from now on, a reflection of the costs of energy, paper and distribution.
L’Est Républicain, Le Progrès, Le Bien Public, Le Dauphiné Libéré, les DNA, l’Alsace and le Bien Public: all increase their price by 10 cents, or even 20 cents depending on the purchase of a number with or without supplement.
In January 2023, the price of most major French newspapers had already increased by 10 to 20 cents due to soaring paper prices.
© 2024 AFP
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